1 The tenderest of steak. Not a sentence, but OK as a noun phrase. 2 She made dinner in the time that I was gone. OK. 3 You've put me in a delicate situation. OK. 4 My hair is itching because of the helmet. OK. (head, actually, so this is a

See Re: a third of the world population is / are?? . CJ

21. It has to be odd (since counting by two's misses it). And it is within one number of counting by five. So it has to be a number on either side of 10, 20, 30, etc (since the numbers on either side of 5, 15, 25 are even). Finally, it has to

dimsum, your examples don't apply. Fifty percent of something plural is still plural. One-third of something plural is still plural. I agree. There is a separate rule for percentages and fractions, but that rule doesn't apply in this

go as far to say This is not correct. It should be go as far as to say or go so far as to say . It means to go farther in what you say, to expand what you are saying even farther in the same direction, to dare to add a more expansive or extreme

Another question: does "compare to" here mean "can be compared to", "has the same good quality, etc."? Yes. CJ

Y ou have only one mistake. I t's not a grammar mistake. I t has to do with the first word. W ould you like to try to correct it? CJ

1. Does "there" refer to "change in East Asia"? I would say so. Change in policy in East Asia. 2. Does "the order of the day" mean "treating East Asia issue as a priority one"? To me "the order of

I'd make the second one more parallel, placing both most and least at the ends of the two parts of the sentence: Those who criticize others most like to be criticized least. CJ

What does "to" mean when an infinitive takes it? The "to" used with infinitives has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. It is just there to show grammatically, where necessary, that an infinitive is being used, and not some other